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The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.
Teen movie Muscle Beach Party opens at cinemas in the USA. The movie stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, and features music by Dick Dale And His Del-Tones, Frankie Avalon and Little Stevie Wonder.
Fania Records, considered by many to have been the most important Latin recording company ever, opens for business on 7th Avenue, New York City, USA. The company is owned by Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci.
The Four Seasons and The Crickets play at Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California, USA. Carl and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys are in the audience.
Marion Worth And George Morgan record Please Help Me I'm Falling, Toos Busy Saying Goodbye, Slowly and Stolen Love Is The Beginning Of The End, in Columbia Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The tracks are produced by Don Law, and the band consists of lead guitarists Grady Martin and Wayne Moss, rhythm guitarists Kelso Herston and Ray Edenton, bassists Harold Bradley and Joe Zincan, steel guitarist Pete Drake, drummers Buddy Harman and Willie Ackerman, and pianists Floyd Cramer and Bill Pursell.
Josh White Jr plays the first of five nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Applejacks and Peter And Gordon appear on UK tv show Top Of The Pops. The Beatles are seen in pre-recorded performances of Can't Buy Me Love and You Can't Do That.
St. Louis Jimmy records Going Down Slow in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Spivey Records. His backing band consists of Willie Dixon, Homesick James, Washboard Sam and Evans Spencer.
Dave Clark Five, Mark Wynter, Susan Maughan and compere Alan Field play the third night in a week of shows at The Hippodrome, Birmingham, UK.
Stan Getz is playing at Ronnie Scott's Club, London, UK.
Roger Osborne is born in Montesano, Washington, USA. he will find success as Buzz Osborne, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of The Melvins.
Bluegrass group The Kentucky Colonels play at the 2nd Annual UCLA Folk Festival, Los Angeles, California, USA. Their steel guitar player, Clarence White, will go on to play for The Byrds.
The Rolling Stones play at The Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, supported by Denny Laine and The Diplomats, who are playing their last gig together, plus The Marauders, Duke D'Mond And The Barron Knights and Wayne Fontana And The Mindbenders.
Sam Cooke has a recording session at RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA, working on the song Yeah Man.
The Beatles are filming sequences for their first movie, A Hard Day's Night, in The Scala Theatre, London, UK.
Elvis Presley continues with the shooting of location scenes for his latest movie, Roustabout, at locations in and around Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Kingston Trio play the third night of a two-week season at The Hungry i, San Francisco, California, USA.
Chuck Berry records No Particular Place To Go for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Musically, it is almost identical to Berry's earlier hit School Days.

Jazz saxophonist Ben Webster has the second of two recording sessions for his Impulse! Records album See You At The Fair in Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.